hold your tongue

Example Sentences

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Do you ever find yourself having to hold your tongue?

From Washington Post • Jun. 10, 2022

But if you raise money from investment bankers you don’t want them thinking you’d ever talk about them that way, so you hold your tongue.

From Salon • Jul. 29, 2019

"Those meetings were tough. You had to navigate how to hold your tongue and still express the shortsightedness of how people were looking at your movie and the marketplace in general."

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 8, 2015

Anything that involves self-control draws on that one willpower fuel source: so dieting takes energy away from your ability to hold your tongue in a conversation — and vice versa.

From Time • Jul. 24, 2015

“I don’t mean to imply that he won’t,” said I, “but it might make you hold your tongue about us and our money, I should think.”

From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens